In Wales, Wanting to be Italian - Imtiaz Dharker

Humorous/light-hearted tone - relates to teenage feelings

Vague “thing” - uncertainty

Direct address - want to find others who relate and also don’t BELONG

Is there a name for that thing/ you do when you are young?

Desire to express herself even while lacking the vocabulary to properly convey her feelings

Wants to be more exotic -

Anaphora/ hyperbole - emphasises how passionate she is to be somewhere more exotic

dying to be French, dying to shrug and pout/ and make yourself understood/ without saying a word?

Wants to be more exciting and confident/have pride in her identity

Wants to be known and perceived the way she wishes she was

Allusion to 60s/70s pop culture

Rich in culture

wanting to declare, like Freddie Mercury

Titular phrase - anticipatin git while reading the poem

Awkwardness of adolescence

Rhetorical question - empathy for the speaker

What is that called? Being sixteen/ in Wales, longing to be Italian

Wants to be bold and expressive

Italian language is passionate - exclamative mood

to be able to say aloud,/ without embarrassment, Bella! Bella!

Comical imagery

“impossibly” - unrealistic expectations

Wants to be more fashionable and outgoing

Childish ignorance/ naivety - stereotypical

Maturity, rebellion “cigarette”

lounge by a Vespa with a cigarette […] and wear/ impossibly pointed shoes?